lost girl

here we go down down into my brain spirals

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[striving-artist]

At time of posting, this is at 711.6k notes

29 Days Remain

[maribii]

"it would erase her love for magic, huh?" says olruggio, the guy who just found out his invention made coco fall in love with magic in the first place. yeahh he's not fooling anyone. that absolute softy is gonnnee, he's gonna protect that kid with his LIFE

[inkskinned]

something about love makes you look at things differently. the really important part of this is that any love will work. if you love blue you will see it everywhere. if you love soft things you will note the cat and the thread count and the moss. you will find your best friend in ugly greeting cards and haunted dolls and terrible fanfics and since they remind you of her they will be beautiful.

so you will love the world differently for having loved someone else. you will love a certain cereal or pokemon because of your brother. you will hear your favorite band's song playing in a random store and the love of it will make the whole world a little more golden. you will read a poem so many times the words become their own creatures. you will find you cannot listen to certain music without thinking of your favorite show.

this velveteen rabbit transformation occurs. the love does not stop, it echoes.

[lemonsunnyhoney]

this ep being called a light on a rainy day is everything to me

because qifreys motif is water, calm on the surface, but with a deep current underneath

and olruggio's motif is fire, both bringing danger but also light

and olruggios introduction being on a rainy day is so insane. because he is the light to qifreys rain AAAAAAAAAAH

[ijustwannawritepls]

How to Write When You Don't Feel Like Yourself

There are going to be days (or weeks, or months) where you sit down to write and feel... disconnected. From your voice, from your characters, from your ideas. Like the person who used to write your stories just packed up and left.

They didn't. They're just tired. Here's how to keep writing anyway:

Lower the bar (Until it's on the floor) You are not here to write something brilliant. You are here to write something. A paragraph. A sentence. A single line of dialogue. Movement matters way more than quality.

Write around the story Don't force it. If you can't write the scene, try: ⋆ A character ramble / journal entry ⋆ A conversation that won't be included in the final draft ⋆ A list of things the character would never admit out loud ⋆ A messy summary of what should happen Engage with the story from a different angle.

Borrow a voice until yours comes back No, not with AI. Read something that feels close to what you want to write, or watch a scene that captures the tone, then write immediately after. Not to copy, to reignite your instincts.

Write the emotion, not the plot. What is your character feeling in this moment? What are they afraid of? What do they want but won't say? What's being kept from them? The emotion leads, the plot catches up later.

Stop trying to "feel like a writer" first. You don't write when you feel like a writer. You feel like a writer because you write.

You are still a writer, even on the days it feels distant. Especially then.

[infiniteoreos]

undiagnosed autistic people will be like "I don't get upset when my routine changes though!!" and it's because they've built a set of if-then loops in their head to pick from one of 6 different strict routines and they do get incredibly upset when they're unable to keep to any of the 6 scripts. I'm john normal

[thundercrackfic]

This is called a fault tree. You will always know how to act if your fault tree captures all possible scenarios. In NASA Mission Control during mission critical events like landings there are huge binders with fault tree protocols, kind of like choose your own adventure books except you’re not the one making the choices, the universe is making them for you and you’re just trying to keep up.

The engineers who develop fault trees, I am told, often imagine new ways for their precious spacecraft to die (new branches on the fault trees) either while in the shower or lying awake at 3am, because human

[toothpaste-footlocker]

[yet-another-autistic-blog]

Was just thinking about this the other day. Yeah I have a favorite seat on the bus (middle of the bus, near the back doors, slightly elevated, facing forward), but I don’t get upset if someone is already sitting there, I just pick one of my other favorite spots. Then I realized that most people probably don’t have a favorite bus seat, let alone a series of backup favorites.

[panpteryx]

[merryweathart]

apprentices and teachers by day, daughters and fathers by night

[anadiilua]

"This is my (Qifrey's) husband and the kitten he said he didn't want"

[whatsupspaceman]

hear me now, ik nobody’s gonna believe me but orufrey is gonna be endgame & it’s gonna be a bittersweet and maybe even slightly happy ending. TRUST ME GUYS. in about 10-20 years y’all will see. we can clutch this.

[manateacup]

so yeah we all knew qifrey is water and olly is fire so they're opposites but after the latest episode I just realized something: qifrey hates being wet and olly created a spell that dries you quickly... ough they care each other so much your honor

[milly-dew]

I keep on seeing people talk about how even after the silverwood parasite would come out, Qifrey would still have intimacy issues steaming from years living like this, which is tragic and there's lots of people writing fic about this, you know, of him recovering from his trauma so he can be with Olly. But I keep thinking, of like the opposite scenario of this where Olruggio is so used to Qifrey friendzoning him and rejecting his advances that he is utterly shocked when a detree'ed Qifrey is immediately down to fuck

[gemstelliumbaby]

i am manifesting for you to write this so i can read it because i need this fic to exist in this world. its my only light left.

[somepinkthing]

Stop saying save olruggio ‼️‼️‼️ he is right where he wants to be 🙂‍↕️ A beautiful man doing all his cooking and cleaning and childcare? Gets to nap for like 30 hrs straight and no one says a thing? And all he has to do is get his memory wiped every once in a while per the blood contract that he drafted? And have I mentioned a beautiful man??? He's fine don't worry abt him

[not-so-blue]

QIFREY'S WATER MAGIC in WITCH HAT ATELIER (2026) The Dragon's Labyrinth | 1x05 dir. Ayumu Watanabe

[bluebeesknees]

“𝘔𝘺 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶”

[asturlavi]

[ddeltacrane]

Twitter link

[crimson-chains]

Doing a museum themed stamp rally for WHA at Denver Fanexpo! Here's my prize piece, based on Monet's "Bridge over a pond of water lilies" :D I think it turned out rather nice <3